The heterogeneous literature on the subject shows how every society has de-veloped its own idea of what the soul is, and how each of these ideas of soul has led to specific social effects. However, for too long and perhaps unfoundedly, the soul has been considered a construct alien to sociological reflection as an empirical social science. In the first part, this paper investigates the concept of the soul from a sociological perspective, starting from the reflections on some classics of sociology (Durkheim, Sombart, Fromm). In the second part we re-view the current sociological concepts on the soul, embedding them in the con-text of late capitalism